Waste management

Waste management giant Biffa has been fined £350,000 for trying to send household rubbish to China which it labelled as waste paper fit for recycling.

Waste management giant Biffa has been convicted of breaking the law on overseas exports after sending collected household waste to China which it claimed to be waste paper.

Wound-up waste paper merchant RRS London Waste Papers has been sentenced after health and safety breaches resulted in the death of one of its employees.

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Impact Air Systems technical sales manager Terry Ward has passed away, aged 53.

Fledgling printing consumables company JAG has responded to significant growth since its foundation two years ago by moving to a warehouse almost four times the size of its previous premises.

The BPIF and Prismm Environmental have introduced certification for their Zero Labels 2 Landfill scheme, which sees waste from label printers intercepted before it goes to landfill sites.

Print waste management specialist J&G Environmental has won contracts to provide waste removal services for Graphic Packaging International (GPI) and YM Group.

Smurfit Kappa has appointed resource management and recycling specialist Countrystyle Recycling to recycle waste from its new paper machine, PM9.

Bradford-based labelling manufacturer Watermill Press has invested £160,000 in a Lundberg Tech waste handling system, which the firm said will boost its productivity by 10%.

SO Group has expanded its recycling operations to help printers earn an income from their waste.

Resource management and recycling specialist Countrystyle Recycling has secured contracts to provide recycling services to three printers based in the South East.